Human Genome Project

A recent article, by Maggie Koreth-Baker for Nautilus, details the story of the Polymerase Chain Reaction "from a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project". The article details the discovery of the thermophilic bacterium, Thermus Aquaticus, from which heat-resistant Taq [...]

Once an exciting new breakthrough and the subject of a Nobel Prize, PCR (polymerase chain reaction), is now used as routine technique in many laboratories. PCR, developed in 1983, amplifies DNA, allowing analysis of very small amounts of DNA, or [...]